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Daithi travels from his Galway home to the RTE studios in Cork every day, so makes an extra effort to see his son in the mornings and at the weekends, saying: "I only stay away maybe one night during the week. We are only two hours from Cork door to door because we moved out of the city. I get back at 8pm in the evenings, Michael Óg is in bed but I race to get the last five minutes with him and if he’s asleep I’ll be thinking, “Ah jeez, I missed that”.

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"But I have him up until 10am so I get two or three hours in the morning. I won’t work on weekends unless it’s really necessary to do it because otherwise all the time just goes from you. You’re out making money and your child has made his Communion and he has made his Confirmation and then you ask yourself, “What was all that about?”. I’ve listened to other people and decided I’m not doing that.